Staff Product Designer, Design Systems (Remote)

Role overview

Lead the evolution of Weedmaps’ multi-platform design system (web + mobile) by unifying design and code across Design, Engineering, and AI tooling. You’ll define and scale the system’s architecture, governance, components, and adoption strategy to enable consistent, high-craft app-wide changes.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the design system with clear architecture, governance, and scalability principles for web + mobile.
• Own roadmap and prioritization based on product needs, adoption gaps, and system performance.
• Partner with Creative and Product Design to maintain high craft and support ongoing brand evolution and feature development.
• Design and implement core system components, including intuitive APIs, variants, and composition patterns.
• Maintain high standards for:
  • Visual precision/fidelity
  • Accessibility (React Aria)
  • Interaction quality, motion, and state management
• Continuously refine components using usage data, edge cases, and audits.
• Implement automated quality systems (e.g., visual regression testing) and act as a cross-functional steward of system quality.
• Lead migration of legacy UI, ensuring key surfaces (e.g., CTAs, checkout flows) use the system and increase adoption.
• Build a tool-to-code pipeline (e.g., Figma, Claude, Builder) to map design artifacts to production components and prevent drift.
• Partner with Engineering on architectural decisions and enforcement mechanisms (e.g., linting, token constraints) to preserve system integrity.
• Introduce and standardize AI-assisted workflows, structuring components for AI-friendly generation (e.g., Builder.io, Claude).
• Mentor designers and engineers; create documentation to help teams move quickly within a governed system.
• Identify innovation opportunities, prototype new interaction/motion models, and codify successes into the design system.

Requirements

• 7+ years in front-end, design, or creative engineering, with strong mobile focus (iOS/Android).
• Proven experience building and scaling design systems/component libraries across multiple teams/products.
• Strong knowledge of React (Web) and React Native; modern front-end architecture.
• Deep design craft: typography, motion, interaction, visual systems.
• Experience driving adoption of shared systems and building design-to-code pipelines (e.g., tokens, Figma integration).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to align Design, Engineering, and Creative stakeholders.

Nice to have / bonus

• Experience in marketplace, e-commerce, or consumer platforms.
• Familiarity with Storybook, visual regression tools, and token management systems.
• Experience translating brand systems into scalable product UI.
• Exposure to AI-native development environments/workflows.